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On March 22, 2016 11:20:46 AM GMT+01:00, Dennis Tants <dennis.tants@×××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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>Hey guys, |
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>till now I was just a silent reader of some topics, but now I could |
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>need |
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>your help. |
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>I recently did a 'emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps/=y --complete=graph world' |
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> |
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>(hope the term with --with-bdeps is correct, writing from memory). I |
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>saw |
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>that I got new gentoo-sources. |
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>I was runnig with 4.0.5, the latest is of course 4.1.15-r1. So I |
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>decided |
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>to upgrade my kernel. I started with eselect kernel set 4.1.15-r1 (the |
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>number for it). Then 'cd /usr/src/linux/ && make menuconfig'. I sorted |
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>out a few filesystems I didn't need, but thats all. |
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>After I saved the .config file, I did 'make && make modules_install && |
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>make install' like it is written in the handbook. |
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>Last but not least I wanted to create a new GRUB entry with |
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>'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg'. I thought I did all steps but |
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>after a reboot, I ran into a kernel panic (Not syncing rootfs, IIRC). |
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>Following a tutorial to be able to boot again, I had a look at my |
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>grub.cfg. |
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>All those grub.cfg's I saw on the wiki had a short and relativeley easy |
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> |
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>to understand syntax. But my grub.cfg is full of things I probably |
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>won't |
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>need. |
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>I thought it could have been my fault, because i removed some fs while |
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>building the kernel, so i tried it again, but this time with genkernel. |
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> |
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>But the same thing happened again. |
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>I now wrote a grub.cfg by my self with all the information I needed. |
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>In this wiki article is an example of a grub.cfg file, which I used as |
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>a |
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>reference. |
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>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Genkernel |
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>After rebooting again, I noticed, that my grub entries did not change. |
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> |
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>Is there anything I did wrong or should try?? |
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>Also, why is there such a complicated 'new' grub layout? Haven't done |
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>much with until now. |
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>Thanks for your precious time :) |
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> |
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>Greetings |
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Did you copy over the .config from your old kernel to the new kernel sources before configuring? |
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I always do that to avoid forgetting something important. |
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Joost |
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